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He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.

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Steve Wozniak
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 11
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In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
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I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would.
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I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.
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When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong.
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Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
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I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.
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I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.
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I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
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Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.
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Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.
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